In all of these areas questions connected to religion and society will address challenges for law, politics and culture, in continuity with the research undertaken within the Impact of religion programme. In all areas we take responsibility for a development of theory and methods for multi-disciplinary research.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN AND HUMAN DIGNITY

The research project is intended to create a clearer idea of which effects artificial intelligence may have in terms of rights, ethics, world views and social institutions at a global level.

CONTRIBUTIVISM

On Practices, Debates and Attitudes About Grounding Democratic Inclusion on Economic Contributions. Contributivism is the idea that economic contribution grounds political
influence in the form of franchise. This project investigates institutional embodiments and political prospects of this idea in the EU today.

Pentecostalism and Social media in Brazil: Faith and the digital production of gendered, racialised and class-based Pentecostal bodies

This project therefore aims to examine the intersections between gender, race and class in the online identity construction of Pentecostal converts in Brazil, as well as the connection between the construction of such identities online and their impact on Pentecostal men and women’s sense of agency and authenticity in the offline world.